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1. cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 20:36:52 JST cjd
   Good effortpost, I tend to agree. Libertarians are the only ones who are really serious. Nobody else has what it takes.
   
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   🧵/ One of the reasons I think libertarianism is going to make a massive comeback in US politics (not just Argentine Politics) Is its willingness to embrace true antigovernment and anti-Bureaucratic Class extremism.
   
   Sure Trump is funny and a major threat to the regime in that he rallies all the rivaled populist classes and ethnicities...
   
   But ultimately "Trumpism" is an ideological nullity outside the insane autoimmune response he personally provokes in the regime, and the insane loyalty he provokes in his base, there isn't much there. There wouldn't be a Trumpism without Trump, and it's not clear it'll be much of anything after Trump.
   
   It's not as if there's a major commitment within Trumpism that "drain the Swamp" even means firing hundreds of government employees without severance, let alone the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of federal employees you'd actually have to fire to simply stop DC from waging war on middle America.
   
   But the New type of libertarianism we've seen rise in South America under the banner of Anarcho-capitalism, and in the US under the banner of the Mises Caucus... They've hit an incredible spot where they're both incredibly extreme and fedpostingly radical, whilst being completely grounded in an ideological ethos and formal reasoning that's incredibly solid and threatening.
   
   Trump's people rallied to "Stop the Steal" whilst insisting on their peacefulness and that anyone who'd advocate anything more forceful was a Fed... as if democracy being stollen before their eyes wouldn't have warranted more, forceful, resistance.
   
   By contrast, you see in this new generation of libertarians the same ruthless coherence and logical entailment that before was only seen in 19th and early 20th-century communist revolutionaries.
   
   The same ruthless ideological clarity that could say "Property is theft" and then actually treat property owners as criminal conspirators in criminal rebellion is likewise implied by motto "Taxation is theft", with a similar treatment of public sector employees who "steal" from the taxpayer... But until now the logical entailment that the communist revolutionaries came to, the direct application of their moral axiom's immediate literal implications... Has been the domain of Ancapitsan memes.
   
   Mostly mockingly made by anti-libertarians.
   
   The rise of a post-fedposting discourse of radical libertarian revolution, where justice demands the agents of the state not only be removed, but judged as criminals and worse...
   
   That is going to make this movement powerful and capable of "dramatic" ideological organization in the way Trumpism will never be able to.
   
   We've already seen this with more populist libertarian-light uprisings in the Trucker Rebellion and Dutch Farmers protests... And we're seeing now the radical political implementation of this as an Argentine party platform...
   
   But the potential could be unlimited... The last ideology to amass this level of economic autism and ideological radicalism and resolve overthrew 30 countries in 70 years and ruled more of the world's population than not...
   
   Trump will of course be the major figure this election cycle and will invariably make history one way or the other for his decade long challenge to the Deep State... but after trump? In 2025 or 2029, or whatever year in between he gets the Kennedy/Nixon treatment?
   
   At that point the ideological successors in the populist right will either wilt back into boomercon failed fusionism... or the 10 years of ideological stasis that has existed because of the Trump phenomenon locking right wing politics into boomer sensibilities will give way to zoomer radicalism...
   
   Chess and politics are games of trying to think one move further ahead.... expect a militant anti-DC libertarianism to be what rises in the wake of Trump just as Ron Paul's influence stalked the right before his rise.
   
   Src: https://twitter.com/FromKulak/status/1692685875765780895